Moruya digs the figs

News that Moruya’s 122-year-old Moreton Bay fig trees are going to be removed has devastated the community.

Councillors voted to remove the two decaying trees which overhang the toilet block and provide shade for picnics at Russ Martin Park.

At the combined committee meeting at Eurobodalla Shire Council on Tuesday, councillors heard the trees’ limbs were at risk of collapsing and that the non-repairable decay fungi Phellinus had been found in the wood.